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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3324
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Habari

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Asante

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Habari gani?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Habari za asubuhi

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
tafadhali

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
pole

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
nakupenda

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

30,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Olonets
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Russki
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

russe
swahili

German Name

Russisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Russians
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

1000 AD
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Eastern
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Swahili

Language Position

721
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
swa

ISO 639 2/B

rus
swa

ISO 639 3

rus
swa

ISO 639 6

rus
swa

Glottocode

russ1263
swah1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Swahili Alphabets

Russian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Swahili. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Russian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Swahili languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Swahili Speaking population

Russian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Swahili on Russian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Swahili Language Codes

Russian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.